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Ooid turbidites from the Central Western continental margin of India

DRS at CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography

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Title Ooid turbidites from the Central Western continental margin of India
 
Creator Rao, P.S.
 
Subject Geology and Geophysics
sea level changes
pleistocene
sediments
foraminifera
carbonates
grain size
continental margins
provenance
turbidites
ISW, India, West Coast
 
Description Gravity displaced debris flows/turbidites have been observed in five box cores collected between water depths of 649 and 3,627 m from the Central Western continental margin of India. Studies on grain size, carbonate content, and coarse fraction revealed that the turbidites are mainly composed of ooids, shell fragments, and shallow water benthic foraminifera. Bioclastic sediments of the outer shelf and upper slope regions are considered the source of the debris flows/turbidity deposits. It appears that the flows were initiated by failure on the outer shelf and upper slope during late Pleistocene low stands of sea level
 
Date 1995-06-24T10:01:49Z
2017-09-30T01:29:57Z
1995-06-24T10:01:49Z
2017-09-30T01:29:57Z
1989
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Geo-Marine Letters, vol.9; 1989; 85-90
0276-0460
http://drs.nio.org/drs/handle/2264/7250
 
Language en
 
Relation Geo-Mar Lett
SCI
 
Publisher Springer